6 March 2013Alessandro Vassili Hatzihristou Kellis
(European University Institute, Florence)The Observations of an Englishman and the Notes of a Greek exile:Bentham’s and Korais’s commentarieson the Provisional Constitution of Greece of 1822

13 March 2013Professor Dan Priel
(Osgoode Hall Law School, York University)Why was Bentham interested in the individuation of laws?

- ISUS Conference

International Society for Utilitarian Studies

ISUS XII Call for Papers: The 12th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies will be held from 8-11 August 2012 at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Proposals for papers and sessions are welcome (deadline is 15 March 2012) - please see here for further details.

13 June 2012Professor James Murphy (Dartmouth College), A Commentary on the ‘Comment’: Jeremy Bentham on Custom

For further information, please contact Phil Baker (philip.baker@ucl.ac.uk). All are welcome!

- New Developments in Bentham Studies

Friday 9 December 2011, Bentham House, UCL

To help mark the relaunch of the Journal of Bentham Studies in a new online homeas part of UCL’s open-access repository of research, the Bentham Project is hosting aone-day international symposium exploring recent developments and new avenues of research in Bentham studies, at which several distinguished scholars will speak.
More Info for registration on Utilitarian Philosophy Bloget Article 2

Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 June 2011, San Romano Conference Centre, Lucca, Italy
Eleventh International Conference of ISUS"The Ethics of Economic Development"
Conference organised by the Dapartment of Economics of the University of Pisa
More info on Utilitarian Philosophy Blog

Registration by email indicating name, surname, address and telephone number or email.Send registration to: Dr. J. D. Ruiz Resa: jruizr@ugr.esCALL FOR PAPERS In Spanish or English. Send please paper by e-mail indicating author and title and accompanying an abstract of 250 words or less.
Deadline: October 15, 2010. Send papers jruizr@ugr.es . A selection of presented papers will be published by the journal Télos.

- Center in Applied Ethics

October 29-30 2010, Research Centre in Applied Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, RomaniaCall for Papers:"Legislative Ethics"
Conference on Applied Ethics organised by Smart Solutions & Support, the Centre in Applied Ethics, with the support of the Romanian National Civil Servants Agency, the Romanian Commission for Bioethics from UNESCO, Dinu Patriciu Foundation and others.
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- NYU Center for Bioethics

March 5, 2011, New York University
NYU Center for Bioethics in Conjunction with the NYU Program in Environmental StudiesCall for Papers:Valuing Lives, A Conference on Ethics in Health and the Environment

Various policy issues in environmental and health-related matters force policymakers to trade human lives against other values. We welcome original, unpublished papers from philosophers, economists and legal scholars that address whether and how this can be done in a morally acceptable manner. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: commensurability of human life and environmental values; compensation for harms to health; polling, public deliberation, and the appeal to expertise in evaluative matters; prioritizing the life and health of the young and the poorly-off; discounting future lives; saving identifiable lives vs. saving statistical lives; the precautionary principle; the human dignity objection to measuring the value of human life.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Submissions should not exceed 4000 words and must be prepared for blind review. Send the paper, a 150 word abstract and a separate document with your identifying information to Amanda Anjum (amandaanjum@nyu.edu). Submission deadline is November 1, 2010. Notification of acceptance will be sent by December 15. For further information, contact Ben Sachs (sachs@nyu.edu) or go to the conference website athttp://bioethics.as.nyu.edu/object/Bioethics.valuinglives